DVD & Book Special--Egypt: Quest for the Lord of the Nile
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Special offer for DVD & companion book
This program started airing on public television stations in September 2007.
DVD--Egypt: Quest for the Lord of the Nile
Adventures with Purpose follows modern explorer Richard Bangs' new voyage up the Nile River. Egypt: Quest for the Lord of the Nile tells the tale of a civilization inextricably bound to the waters of the Nile and its creatures. From Alexandria to Cairo, from the Great Pyramids at Giza, to the Valley of the Kings, Richard explores the way the river and its fearsome Lord molded a society. Further upstream still, Bangs visits a temple at Kom Ombo dedicated to Sobek, the Crocodile God, and seeks the beast himself in the waters of Lake Nasser. Richard Bangs is often called the father of modern adventure travel. Leader of 35 first descents of rivers around the globe, a mountain climber and renowned author, Richard brings a lifetime of experience to Adventures with Purpose.
DVD Extras include helpful maps, an interview with Richard Bangs, and exclusive bonus video.
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Book--Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose:
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Earth (Paperback)
Running such wild rivers as the crocodile-infested Tekaze in Ethiopia, Richard Bangs used to live for the adrenalin, for the rush of reveling in the misery of hardship and sidestepping death around every bend. Now a respected conservationist, he still travels to demanding exotic environments, but with a new, more sober objective: he wants to save these special places. Bangs' personal experiences of "witnessing many special places preserved and lost" led him to write Adventures with Purpose, and the book follows the author to Bosnia, Libya, Panama, the American West, Rwanda, Thailand, and more as he seeks out disappearing cultures, peoples, habitats, and ecosystems - particularly rivers - so that he can show readers that the loss of these special places will be a catastrophe. Written in the vivid, intimate style that made his earlier books both critical and commercial successes, Richard Bangs' Adventures with Purpose is an unforgettable composite portrait of a world in peril and an inspiring guide to rescuing it.
The lead essay is 7500 words on Egypt: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, and the book contains additional essays on other Richard Bangs adventures.
400 pages.
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